HARTFORD, Conn. — A detailed account of African-American life in the Northeast during World War II, carefully preserved in the basement of the Connecticut State Library, has been uploaded for a new, modern readership. Hunched over a lighted magnifying machine, Christine Gauvreau spent months scrolling through reels of microfilm of black-owned and operated Connecticut newspapers, preparing them to be digitized. Connecticut’s latest additions to Chronicling America mark the first African-American newspapers added to the project from a Northeast state. “They wanted to tell the story about what was happening in black Hartford. Meanwhile, a June 5, 1948 issue of the Connecticut Chronicle details opposition to a segregated regional college plan in North Carolina.

Source: National Post February 10, 2019 14:26 UTC